Posted on 02/27/2009 6:49:44 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Who are you...Atilla the Hun???
It was Oscar worthy by today’s joke standards
(Eastwood)Pardner singing;
I talk to the trees
But they don’t listen to me..
(Lee Marvin) Ben Rumson;
Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson.
Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty.
Mrs. Fenty: Didn’t that discourage you about drinking?
Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin’!
Try to catch it on TV at least once every five years.
Atilla the Hun? That pinko??
:-)
So you didn’t chuckle during that part of the movie? I sure as hell did, and I bet most everyone else in the theatre did too.
I teach at a community college. In our district I’d say there are maybe 10-15 disabled students (blind, handicapped, deaf...etc). Years ago, a program was put in place to help such students with their issues. No one would argue with this program.
However, the college soon discovered that it gets extra money for every enrolled disabled student. Well, surprise! Surprise!! The professors over the years were soon quietly, discretely, and overtly pressured to send any and all ‘D and ‘F’ students to the ‘Help Center’ where they could be quickly Labeled ‘Learning Disabled’ so the school could ask the state for more money.
It’s to the point now that if a professor doesn’t send at least 3-4 students in for ‘evaluation’ every year, he’s more or less shunned, black-balled, denied tenure, or worse.
At one meeting where the ‘Help’ center was making their pitch for more disabled students, a physics professor actually had the gall to stand up and say, “Maybe the students just aren’t studying because they are unmotivated and lazy.”
The awkward pause that followed still sends shivers down my spine. It was like that scene from invasion of the body snatchers where everyone points and hisses at the ‘non-converted’ human.
Political correctness just permeates our schools and our culture. It cost states vast sums of money. It prevents real communication, and takes the fun out of living. And, no one can stop it. It’s like the blob.
Clint is really touching on something here.
Clint has always seemed to be small "l" Libertarian to me.
The Dirty Harry star insists that he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fearing that people may brand him “a racist”
Eastwood should have the courage to not worry about being called a racist. I personally gave that kind of stupidity up 30 years ago. They’re gonna call ya what they’re gonna call ya. Who cares.
Rage, rage against the, blob?
I like the scene where the Chinese restaurant is being robbed by two semi-crazed gunmen and Callahan is just sitting there cool as a cucumber holding something in his hand. When one of the robbers finally notices him, the loon gives him a glassy-eyed menacing look. Callahan replies:
“You forgot your fortune cookie. It says you’re sh*t outta luck.”
Boom. He then kills them.
Eastwood is funny because he perpetually plays a guy who doesn’t give a damn. If I ever have kids, I’m telling them stories of Blondie and Dirty Harry and Josey Wales before bed.
Clint has been a Repub since 1951. He wasn’t elected mayor until 1986 according to his website.
I don't think Clint cares. He's nearly eighty and financially independent. He's also the most copied person in Hollywood. Just a few examples: Eastwood started the whole spaghetti western trend. Westerns were starting to die, and Eastwood totally rejuvenated them.
After the spaghetti westerns, he made Dirty Harry. This was the first movie that made Hollywood hate him. Dirty Harry inspired later movies like Death Wish and changed the whole genre of cop films.
Eastwood's first directorial effort was "Play Misty For Me." That inspired another genre of movies about hot chicks that seduce guys and then turn out to be crazy. The movie "Fatal Attraction" is almost a scene by scene rip off of Play Misty For Me.
Unforgiven redefined westerns again, and people will copy Gran Torino.
I read an interview with Eastwood, and he said he took acting lessons once, but the acting instructor alternately told him he was an awful actor and should get out of movies, and then kept asking him to get him parts.
HUH????
“Humor” today is moonbats like Greasy Hair Barfolo blurting lines like “Chimpy Bushitler” and the Air America moonbats have their laughing spasm.
In Million Dollar Baby Clint trains a woman to be a boxer and then at the wishes of the boxer, after she is paralyzed, he euthanizes her. Hardly conservative and from the sound of your comment, neither are you.
Clint couldn’t care less what that flock of freaks think about him.
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